4 An Anglers Paradise. 
considerable outlay in stocking waters.” It is here that the mis- 
take has been made, through mismanagement, for the waters 
referred to have probably not been stocked at all as stocking is 
understood to-day. Possibly a quantity of unhealthy or badly 
grown fry have been turned out to die, or it may be have been 
killed by the operation, or turned out in places which were totally 
unsuited for them, and, as might be expected, no improvement has 
followed. Such failures as these have undeservedly brought dis- 
credit on the work, and they have unfortunately had the effect of 
retarding its progress. 
2. The time was but a few years ago when even fish culturists 
of experience, who were looked up to by others as such, were 
frequently not rewarded by successful results to their many 
experiments. 
Upon these latter failures, however, is now built up a mass 
of knowledge which has enabled us to bridge over the many 
difficulties of trout culture, and to overcome what at one time 
appeared to be insuperable barriers to the further progress of this 
interesting study. The tendency of late years has been for a 
great reduction in the prices of our products, but all this time fish 
as an article of food has been getting dearer. The cause is 
obvious, and the remedy is obvious, and the sooner it is applied 
the better. Do with fish what is done with cattle and with 
poultry, and the benefit accruing will be very great. Every 
country house with a water supply should have its fish ponds, for 
the purpose of supplying the kitchen as well as for angling. This 
work is now being taken up, and where it is properly carried out 
the results are highly encouraging. Existing ponds have been 
utilized most advantageously, and in other cases new ponds have 
been made on approved principles, and the success of the latter, 
where properly managed, has been very great indeed. 
By way of illustration I may mention a pond which I con- 
structed, which measured about ninety feet by thirty and averaged 
about five feet in depth. Out of this pond was taken over seven 
hundred pounds weight of trout. These fish had occupied the pond 
for three years, and for a year previous to their introduction a very 
small one had contained them. Now multiply the area of the 
pond by fifteen and the result is four thousand five hundred 
